Cardinal: God is smiling on Washington Archdiocese ‘with intense love’ as auxiliaries ordained July 9, 2026By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Promising to “guard the deposit of faith pure and entire” and to “encourage the holy people of God and to guide them in the way of salvation,” Bishop Gary R. Studniewski and Bishop Robert P. Boxie III were ordained July 7 as auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Washington.
Shrine is a place of prayer, pilgrimage and ‘encounter’ with St. John Paul II’s life, legacy March 25, 2026By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News St. John Paul II “changed the Church and the world, and you can encounter that here” at the national shrine in Washington named for the Polish pope, said Grattan Brown, the shrine’s director of mission and ministry.
Rev. King led ‘revolution of conscience’ on racism, discrimination, cardinal says January 19, 2026By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic Standard Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, News, Racial Justice, World News The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a “revolution of conscience” and sought “the conversion of hearts,” Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said during a Jan. 18 Mass remembering the late Civil Rights leader.
Washington Archdiocese’s project honors those enslaved by Catholic Church in Maryland November 19, 2025By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic Standard Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News During a Nov. 15 commemoration of Black Catholic History Month at Sacred Heart Church in Bowie, the Archdiocese of Washington unveiled a new project that seeks to “honor those enslaved by the Catholic Church in Maryland.”
Man arrested outside Washington cathedral ahead of Red Mass found to have explosives October 7, 2025By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic Standard Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News Court documents show that a New Jersey man arrested Oct. 5 outside of St. Matthew’s Cathedral just hours before the start of the annual Red Mass had a “fully functional” arsenal of explosives that he threatened to detonate.
At Mass to open convention, Knights urged to commit to ‘holiness, unity, charity, fraternity’ August 6, 2025By Richard Szczepanowski Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News The fraternity fostered by the Knights of Columbus “contributes to our unity” and helps Knights grow in holiness and build up the Body of Christ, members of that Catholic fraternal organization were told at an Aug. 5, 2025 Mass to open their annual convention.
Cardinal McElroy installed as eighth archbishop of Washington March 12, 2025By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, World News Cardinal Robert McElroy was installed March 11 as the eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, during a nearly two-hour liturgy in which he encouraged the faithful of his new archdiocese to be “pilgrims of hope in a wounded world.”
Cardinal McElroy urges Washington Archdiocese faithful to ‘give whole hearts to God’ during Lent March 6, 2025By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Lent, News, World News Less than a week before he will be officially installed as the eighth archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass March 5 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington.
Washington’s new archbishop seeks to ‘know and understand this magnificent community of faith’ January 6, 2025By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, World News Hours after Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego was announced Jan. 6 as the new archbishop of Washington, the prelate praised his new archdiocese as “truly sacramental in the rich diversity of its traditions and perspectives.”
Franciscan Monastery in Washington is sacred ground leading people to Christ, cardinal says September 24, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory celebrated a Sept. 22 Mass to mark the 125th anniversary of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington by reminding the faithful the church building is “something far more precious than a simple structure or a functional edifice.”
Shrine Mass marks centennial of first priestly ordinations at ‘Mary’s House’ in Washington August 26, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News As part of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception’s continuing celebration marking 100 years of worship at “Mary’s House,” as it’s often called, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory offered a Mass of thanksgiving for all the priests who were ordained or otherwise connected to the church.
More than 1,200 take to the streets of nation’s capital for National Eucharistic Pilgrimage June 10, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News More than 1,200 faithful took to the streets of the nation’s capital June 8 to celebrate the arrival of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in the Archdiocese of Washington with prayers, songs and a procession.
